AEJ Best Paper Awards
Annually, an article is selected from each òòò½Íø Journal from nominated articles for the AEJ Best Paper Award. The deadline for nominations was February 15. Winners are announced in April.
2025
Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and the Market for Remote Work
Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 16, No. 4, October 2024
Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance
Katherine R. H. Wagner
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 14, No. 3, August 2022
Earnings-Based Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Thomas Drechsel
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2023
Competition in Pricing Algorithms
Zach Y. Brown and Alexander MacKay
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2, May 2023
2024
Manasi Deshpande (L) and Yalun Su (R) receiving AEJ:Applied Economics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Tal Gross) | ||
Giovanni Ricco receiving AEJ:Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Silvia Miranda-Agrippino) | |
Simon Board (L) and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (R) receiving AEJ:Microeconomics Best Paper Awards |
Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross, and Yalun Su
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 13, No. 2, April 2021
Barbara Biasi
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 13, No. 3, August 2021
Silvia Miranda-Agrippino and Giovanni Ricco
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, July 2021
Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 14, No. 2, May 2022
2023
Enghin Atalay (L) and Daniel Tannenbaum (center) receiving AEJ:Applied Economics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Phai Phongthiengtham and Sebastian Sotelo) | Oyebola Okunogbe receiving AEJ:Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Victor Pouliquen) | |
Christopher Conlon (center) and Michael Sinkinson (R) receiving AEJ:Microeconomics Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Matthew Backus) | |
Morten Olsen receiving AEJ:Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: David Hémous) |
The Evolution of Work in the United States
Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastian Sotelo, and Daniel Tannenbaum
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 12, No. 2, April 2020
Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing
Oyebola Okunogbe and Victor Pouliquen
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 14, No. 1, February 2022
The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality
David Hémous and Morten Olsen
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 14, No. 1, January 2022
Common Ownership in America: 1980 – 2017
Matthew Backus, Christopher Conlon, and Michael Sinkinson.
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, August 2021
2022
Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments
Rachael Meager
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 11, No. 1, January 2019
Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study
Julius J. Andersson
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 11, No. 4, November 2019
Higher Taxes at the Top: The Role of Entrepreneurs
Bettina Brüggemann
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 13, No. 3, July 2021
Is No News (Perceived As) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure
Ginger Zhe Jin
Michael Luca
Daniel Martin
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 13, No. 2, May 2021
2021
Ruben Enikolopov
Maria Petrova
Konstantin Sonin
òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 10, No. 1, January 2018
Martin Watzinger
Thomas A. Fackler
Markus Nagler
Monika Schnitzer
òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 12, No. 4, November 2020
Marek Jarociński
Peter Karadi
òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, Volume 12, No. 2, April 2020
Fernando Luco
òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, Volume 11, No. 2, May 2019
2020
Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
Henrik Klevin
Camille Landais
Jakob Egholt Søgaard
AEJ: Applied Economics, 11 (4)
Who is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs
Manasi Deshpande
Yue Li
AEJ: Economic Policy, 11 (4)
A Model of Secular Stagnation: Theory and Quantitative Evaluation
Gauti Eggertsson
Neil R. Mehrotra
Jacob Robbins
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 11 (1)
Discrimination via Symmetric Auctions
Rahul Deb
Mallesh Pai
AEJ: Microeconomics, 9 (1)
2019
Expertise versus Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH
Danielle Li
AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (2)
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
Marshall Burke and Kyle Emerick
AEJ: Economic Policy, 8 (3)
The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Markus Poschke
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 10 (3)
A Pseudo-Market Approach to Allocation with Priorities
Yinghua He, Antonio Miralles, Marek Pycia, and Jianye Yan
AEJ: Microeconomics, 10 (3)
(L to R) Janet Yellen and 2019 recipients Danielle Li, Kyle Emerick (co-author Marshall Burke not present), Markus Poschke, Yinghua He and Jianye Yan (co-authors Antonio Miralles and Marek Pycia not present)
2018
The Persistent Effect of Temporary Affirmative Action
Conrad Miller
AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (3)
Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health
Hilary Hoynes, Doug Miller and David Simon
AEJ: Economic Policy, 7 (1)
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo
AEJ: Macroeconomics, 9 (4)
Collective Self-Control
Alessandro Lizzeri and Leeat Yariv
AEJ: Microeconomics, 9 (3)
Barbara Petrongolo (L) and L. Rachel Ngai (center) receiving AEJ:Macro Best Paper Awards |
David Simon and Hilary Hoynes receiving AEJ:Policy Best Paper Awards (not pictured: Doug Miller) |
Conrad Miller receiving AEJ:Applied Best Paper Award |
Alessandro Lizzeri receiving AEJ:Micro Best Paper Award (not pictured: Leeat Yariv) |
2017
- Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy
- Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Durante, Brian Knight, and Eliana La Ferrara
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 8 (1)
- Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
- Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev, and Scott Stern
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 8 (1)
- Understanding the Great Recession
- Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin S. Eichenbaum, and Mathias Trabandt
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 7 (1)
- Investing in Skill and Searching for Coworkers: Endogenous Participation in a Matching Market
- Chris Bidner, Guillaume Roger and Jessica Moses
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 8 (1)
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Ruben Durante and Stefano DellaVigna, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Brian Knight and Eliana La Ferrara)
Philippe Aghion and Julian Kolev, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Fiona Murray, Mathias Dewatripont, and Scott Stern)
Martin S. Eichenbaum and Lawrence J. Christiano, recipients of the 2017 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award (not pictured: Mathias Trabandt)
2016
- Legal Status and the Criminal Activity of Immigrants
- Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Paolo Pinotti
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 7 (2)
- Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition, and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service
- Martin Gaynor, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, and Carol Propper
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 5 (4)
- Monetary Policy Surprises, Credit Costs, and Economic Activity
- Mark Gertler, Peter Karadi
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 7 (1)
- Nonlinear Pricing of Storable Goods
- Igal Hendel, Alessandro Lizzeri, and Nikita Roketskiy
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 6 (3)
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Martin Gaynor, recipient of the 2016 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award (not pictured: Rodrigo Moreno-Serra and Carol Propper)
Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Paolo Pinotti, recipients of the 2016 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award
2015
- Real Wage Inequality
- Enrico Moretti
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 5 (1)
- Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy
- Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 4 (2)
- Credit Risk and Disaster Risk
- François Gourio
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 5 (3)
- Observational Learning and Demand for Search Goods
- Kenneth Hendricks, Alan Sorensen and Thomas Wiseman
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 4 (1)
Enrico Moretti, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award |
François Gourio, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Macroeconomics Best Paper Award |
Kenneth Hendricks, recipient of the 2015 AEJ: Microeconomics Best Paper Award (Alan Sorensen and Thomas Wiseman, not pictured) |
Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, recipients of the 2015 AEJ: Economic Policy Best Paper Award |
2014
- Pascaline Dupas
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 3 (1)
- Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 5 (4)
- Michael W. L. Elsby and Ryan Michaels
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 5 (1)
- Susan Athey, Dominic Coey, and Jonathan Levin
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 5 (1)
2013
- Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter, Andrew Heisz
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 4 (1)
- Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Laura Feiveson, Zachary Liscow, William Gui Woolston
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 4 (3)
- Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2 (2)
- Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 2 (2)
2012
- Petia Topalova
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 2 (4)
- Raj Chetty
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 1 (2)
- Michael Woodford
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 3 (1)
- Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 3 (1)
2011
- Hoyt Bleakley
- AEJ: Applied Economics, 2 (2)
- Emmanuel Saez
- AEJ: Economic Policy, 2 (3)
- Valerie Ramey and Neville Francis
- AEJ: Macroeconomics, 1 (2)
- Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
- AEJ: Microeconomics, 1 (2)